Arabic A1, Unit 14: My home: review

My home: review

Arabic A1 · Unit 14

GoalDescribe your home: rooms, furniture, what there is, what you have, and where things are.

New words

بَيْتِي كَبِير (baytī kabīr) · my house is bigفِي بَيْتِي حَدِيقَة (fī baytī ḥadīqa) · there is a garden in my houseغُرْفَة النَّوْم بِجَانِب الْحَمَّام (ghurfat an-nawm bi-jānib al-ḥammām) · the bedroom is next to the bathroomعِنْدِي سَرِير جَدِيد (ʿindī sarīr jadīd) · I have a new bedالتِّلْفَاز فِي غُرْفَة الْجُلُوس (at-tilfāz fī ghurfat al-julūs) · the television is in the living roomلَيْس فِي الْمَطْبَخ طَاوِلَة (lays fī l-maṭbakh ṭāwila) · there is no table in the kitchenالْقَلَم تَحْت الْمَكْتَب (al-qalam taḥt al-maktab) · the pen is under the desk

Explanation

This is the review of unit 14. You can name the rooms and the furniture of a home. You know that the adjective and the pointing word match the noun. With فِي you say what there is in a place, with لَيْس what there is not, and with عِنْدِي what you have. With عَلَى، تَحْت، أَمَام and بِجَانِب you say where things are. Put these pieces together to describe your home. Read the examples aloud, then write your own text.

I can…	Example
name a room	غُرْفَة الْجُلُوس
name furniture	هَذِهِ أَرِيكَة
say what there is	فِي بَيْتِي حَدِيقَة
say what I have or do not have	لَيْس عِنْدِي تِلْفَاز
say where it is	الْكِتَاب عَلَى الْمَكْتَب

Worked examples

Layla describes her home. Press each card.

Fadi

هَل عِنْدَك حَدِيقَة؟

Hind

نَعَم، عِنْدِي حَدِيقَة صَغِيرَة.

Fadi

وَأَيْن هِيَ؟

Hind

هِيَ أَمَام الْبَيْت.

Fadi

جَمِيل!

Fadi asks Hind about her garden.

لَيْسthere is not+فِي الْغُرْفَةin the room+سَرِيرa bed

“There is not”, “in the room”, “a bed”: three pieces.

Class activity

My home on paper. Write six sentences about your home: two rooms, two things in a room, one thing you do not have (لَيْس عِنْدِي …) and one place sentence with عَلَى, تَحْت or بِجَانِب. Give every word its vowels. Read the text aloud, then draw your home and put the Arabic labels on the drawing.

Practice

Press Listen. Is it a room or a thing in a room?

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Which sentence is correct: الْأَرِيكَة كَبِير or الْأَرِيكَة كَبِيرَة?

The picture shows a bed. Say “there is a bed in the bedroom”.

The picture shows a television. Where is it? Answer: in the living room.

Ask: “is there a garden in the house?”.

At home

My home: review